The government seeks to curb the inevitable rise in food prices expected in spring
DECODING – Bercy summons industry players and retailers on Wednesday, ahead of the annual tariff negotiations for 2027. The co‑organisers threaten to boycott the meeting.
Destabilized by the scale of the demonstrations against the high cost of living, the government is worried about the coming return of inflation in food products. Since the start of the war in the Gulf in February, the French have suffered from soaring fuel prices and, for some, an increase in the cost of their heating. The next wave of inflation should arrive on the shelves of supermarkets in the spring, a few weeks before the presidential election.
A prospect that is all the more worrying given that the inflationary shock of 2022-2023, marked by a 20% increase in the price of consumer products in the 18 months following the start of the war in Ukraine, is still on everyone's minds. It had led to a fall in volume sales in supermarkets. Although the rise in prices was stopped, they never fell again.
Certainly, the new waltz of labels will be much smaller in scale than the previous one. But it looks inevitable following the annual price negotiations between distributors and agri-food and consumer products manufacturers, which begin at the beginning of December.
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